BSU, UI score big time scientific gadgets

New high-tech gadgets acquired by state universities could boost Idaho's fledgling nanotechnology industry by attracting big brains and someday spawning spin-off companies.
Boise State University is starting to work with a $610,000 super-fast burst, high-intensity laser aimed at testing and developing Nanomaterials, while at the University of Idaho, researchers are assembling a $710,000 advanced spectrometer that ...